# Palomar High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063864006490`
- **School name**: Palomar High
- **Location**: Chula Vista, CA 91911
- **Address**: 480 Palomar St.
- **District**: Sweetwater Union High (LEAID `0638640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.60512, -117.07374
- **Phone**: (619)407-4800
- **Website**: https://www.sweetwaterschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 269
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Red
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 5.1% proficient — 61 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 59.9% (cohort of 237)
- **2021**: 17.0% (cohort of 171)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 105.0% (271 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.0% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 10.7% (32 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 51 students
- **English Learners**: 37.5% — 112 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 41 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $2,790,777
- **Federal share**: $280,469
- **State + local share**: $2,510,308
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 299
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,289,767
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 58.4%
- **Local share**: 32.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,297,535

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $52,622
- **Poverty rate**: 22.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.8%
- **Unemployment**: 19.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,622
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 50.9 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.49 miles (DAVIES PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SWEETWATER AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.9444 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Chula Vista Senior High** — 1.2 mi away, 1.16% (this school: 4.01%)
- **Castle Park Senior High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 4.01%)
- **Montgomery Senior High** — 1.5 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 4.01%)
- **Hilltop Senior High** — 2.4 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 4.01%)
- **Southwest Senior High** — 2.7 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 4.01%)

### ela proficiency
- **Lauderbach (J. Calvin) Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 30.5% (this school: 12.55%)
- **Montgomery (John J.) Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 31.85% (this school: 12.55%)
- **Options Secondary** — 0.7 mi away, 30.3% (this school: 12.55%)
- **Harborside Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 27.75% (this school: 12.55%)
- **Castle Park Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 35.05% (this school: 12.55%)

### graduation rate
- **Options Secondary** — 0.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 59.9%)
- **Chula Vista Senior High** — 1.2 mi away, 90.7% (this school: 59.9%)
- **Chula Vista Learning Community Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 59.9%)
- **Castle Park Senior High** — 1.3 mi away, 89.1% (this school: 59.9%)
- **Montgomery Senior High** — 1.5 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 59.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Montgomery (John J.) Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Castle Park Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rice (Lilian J.) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Otay Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Chula Vista Senior High** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palomar-high-chula-vista/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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